While burning children satisfies the mechanics of the plot, it’s lazy for the film’s writers to ignore obvious solutions that already exist.Īfter the implosion of the CAB, pregnant women come out of hiding, no longer afraid that their children will be taken from them. It is later revealed that the children are really being burned alive and disposed of, a process that’s hidden from the public. Rather than taking preemptive measures to prevent more births, siblings are relinquished to the Child Allocation Bureau to be put into “cryosleep” until the world’s environmental problems have been resolved. The film never once mentions birth control or acknowledges its role in accomplishing the larger society’s goal of having fewer babies. While I thoroughly enjoyed What Happened To Monday, I’m bothered by the film’s failure to address a massive plot hole: birth control. Noomi Rapace stars as seven septuplets-named after the days of the week-who are sharing the public-facing identity “Karen Settman” to survive a world that has outlawed siblings.

This is the premise of the new Netflix film What Happened to Monday. To slow population growth, the Child Allocation Bureau, a shady government agency, enforces a strict one-child policy. But the new crops also increase fertility, leading to a sharp and immediate uptick in multiples and birth defects.

In a bid to save humanity, scientists engineer a super crop that grows quickly and solves the worldwide famine. Imagine this: The Earth has become overpopulated, can no longer sustain human life, and people are starving due to a food shortage.

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